BCOSANDRIA, PBNTAGYNIA. Wl 



( >mmon Crab-apple* Sici'ct-sccntcd Crah-trcr. 



This magnificent tree, equalls inti -noting tor itl Mlt 



ami fragrant flow era, :iml the fine fruit it \ ieMU for pn m n ing, 

 may be ranked foremost among the trees of America. On 



t he I fa orders o\' woods, and in fields. Flow ers rose -red; rer) 

 numerous. Ma\ 



2*0. 8PHLEA. Gen. pi. 862. (Itosacc.v.) 



Calix spreading 0-cleft, inferior. Petals .\. 

 equal, roundish. Stamina numerous ex- 

 sorted. Capsules 3 to 12, internally bi- 

 valve, each 1 to 3-seeded. — *Yutt. 



1. S. leaves lanceolate, narrowly serrate, gla-aiba. 

 brous; racemes terminal, compound, panicu- 

 late; Bowers 5-gynous, — if'illd. 



S. alba. Klirh. ain't Mulil. 



Bi salicifolia, Willd. 



Icon. Mill. ic. t. 257. t'. 2. 



\ tine shrub, about four feet high, often cultivated in gar- 

 dens. It grows wild, in thickets on the shores of the Dela- 

 ware, Jersey side, on the hank walk from Kaighn's point to 

 the next ferry below. It is abundant in that locality, but! have 

 not found it elsewhere. lj . June, July. 



L S. leaves ovate, lobate, duplicate-toothed or •pmttfcSa. 

 eremite, glabrous : corymbs terminal, crowded 

 with Bowers j Bowers trigvnous, capsules in- 

 Bated. — fPUId. and Twrih. 



Icon. Schmidt. Arb. 32. Rob. ic. 134. Coinm. 

 hort. 1. t. 87. (I'ursli.) 



Nine-hark. 



This very elegant shrub, about si\ feet high, is nuniliarli 

 known to most persons by the ibore common name, Of by 

 .tliat n-bark, from the number of lamella* of the bark, 



from the COrtei to the Itber. Flowers white, numerous. Cap- 

 sules bright crimson. red, which renders the shrub exceeding- 

 ly ornamental in fniit, as it certainly is in (lower. It richly 

 merits cultivation in gardens. On the banks of the Delaware, 

 very abundant . aLo near swampy thickets bordering the n- 



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